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Datacentre systems management
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December 05, 2012
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Computer Weekly European User Awards Criteria and Information
Read the entry criteria and general information about entering the Computer Weekly European User Awards.
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December 05, 2012
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Computer Weekly European User Awards: Categories
The Computer Weekly European User Awards honours IT professionals across Europe that have excelled in their approach to using technology, focusing on the key areas of networking and mobile; storage; security; datacentre and virtualisation; and ...
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December 05, 2012
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Energy efficiency is top datacentre priority for IT, shows study
More than half of IT decision-makers have cited power efficiency as their number one priority in the datacentre for the next three to five years
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December 03, 2012
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More security, high-availability and gov-cloud are on AWS users’ wish list
Better security, ease of use, added availability as well as G-cloud features could make AWS cloud more appealing
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November 29, 2012
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AWS launches new EC2 instances and Data Pipeline for big data analytics
AWS has launched two new EC2 instances for applications and analytics workloads as well as AWS Data Pipeline for big data
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November 29, 2012
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AWS re:Invent: Users hold back from putting sensitive data in the cloud
Despite the benefits of cloud and a "cloud-first" strategy, security concerns are stopping many users putting sensitive data in the cloud
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November 28, 2012
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Guardian publisher uses Amazon EC2 to power iPhone app content
Publisher Guardian News & Media uses AWS for cloud-based infrastructure to scale content provision on smartphones and tablets
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November 28, 2012
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AWS re:Invent: Amazon launches data warehouse service Redshift and cuts S3 prices
At its first ever user conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched data warehousing cloud service Redshift and slashed S3 prices
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November 28, 2012
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Private cloud does not bring full benefits of cloud computing, says AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) senior vice-president Andy Jassy slams private cloud suppliers for failing to deliver the benefits of cloud computing
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November 27, 2012
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Orange Digital and EE adopt cloud to save £2m in hosting costs
Orange Digital and EE adopted AWS cloud not just for high scalability but also to cut infrastructure hosting costs by £2m in three years
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November 27, 2012
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£60m datacentre to be built in Birmingham
A 10MW modular datacentre worth £60m will be built in Birmingham by March 2013
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November 27, 2012
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Hyper-V boost pushes Microsoft virtualisation closer to VMware
Microsoft has done a lot to boost its Hyper-V virtualisation software but the improvements do not justify switching from VMware, says Gartner
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November 27, 2012
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Top 10 datacentre stories of 2012
Software-defined datacentres, sustainable and green IT, power and cooling management, DCIM tools and keeping the datacentre running despite hurricane are 2012's datacentre highlights
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November 26, 2012
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UK rail ticketing services get next-generation facelift with AWS cloud
Rail Settlement Plan, the supplier for IT and retail services to UK rail operators, is using AWS cloud to build next-generation ticketing systems
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November 23, 2012
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Leeds to become home to a new £43m independent datacentre in 2013
Leeds City Council has approved the building of a £43m network-neutral datacentre to boost its internet connectivity and infrastructure
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November 21, 2012
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Firms must measure overall environmental impact of datacentres
IT must move beyond just measuring a datacentre’s power consumption to assessing its overall environmental impact to make it truly sustainable
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November 21, 2012
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Green Grid urges businesses use DCMM tool for datacentre efficiency
The Datacentre Maturity Model (DCMM) tool helps businesses improve their datacentres' energy efficiency PUE metric, says The Green Grid
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November 21, 2012
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Datacentre group collaborates with EC over green measures
Datacentre consortium The Green Grid is working with the European Commission (EC) to improve efficiency and sustainability in datacentres
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November 20, 2012
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Organisations will focus on datacentre efficiency in 2013, says Ovum
As businesses seek the best value from investments they will try to reduce costs and improve sustainability in their datacentres in 2013
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November 19, 2012
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Gartner: PaaS revenue to touch $2.9bn in 2016, from $900m in 2011
Global revenue for platform as a service (PaaS) will grow consistently to reach $2.9bn in 2016, intensifying the competition, says Gartner
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November 16, 2012
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Dublin Airport Authority uses virtualisation to overhaul IT
Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has launched an IT overhaul project with HP converged infrastructure and VMware vSphere platform
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November 16, 2012
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SAP certifies use of Business Suites on AWS cloud
SAP has certified Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run its business intelligence (BI) applications, including SAP ERP and SAP CRM, on the AWS cloud
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November 15, 2012
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Dublin Airport Authority turns to virtualisation for CCTV data storage
Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) is planning to use virtualised servers to store CCTV data for easy retrieval and improved management
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November 13, 2012
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Icann picks Dundee datacentre to host first Scottish root server
Icann is hosting its first internet root server system in Scotland in a 100-rack datacentre in Dundee from IT provider brightsolid
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November 13, 2012
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Symantec: Half of enterprise data is stored outside the datacentre
As mobile computing and cloud services go mainstream, only 50% of an organisation's information is in its own datacentre, says Symantec
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November 09, 2012
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CIOs distrust public cloud for mission-critical work, says IDC
IT executives are still not confident about running mission-critical workloads on public cloud platforms, according to research firm IDC
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November 08, 2012
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Oracle buys cloud services provider Instantis
Oracle is buying Instantis, a cloud and on-premise project portfolio management company, to boost its cloud portfolio
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November 05, 2012
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Telecity buys Finland datacentre operator Academica for €28m
Datacentre provider Telecity Group buys Finnish datacentre operator Academica for €28m to gain access to Russian markets
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November 05, 2012
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German public sector firm BAG beat data woes with storage virtualisation
German Federal Office for Freight Transport - BAG - found a solution to its data management problems in storage virtualisation
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November 02, 2012
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Manual efforts keep Peer 1 datacentre running amid Hurricane Sandy
Staff at Peer 1 Hosting’s Manhattan datacentre have kept the facility operational by manually delivering fuel to generators on 17th floor
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November 01, 2012
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Tape is not a dead storage concept, but needs reinventing
Despite advances in storage technology such as hard disks, data de-duplication and cloud-based storage, tape is not dead, say experts
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October 31, 2012
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Amazon faces competition as cloud technology goes mainstream
Cloud is becoming a marketplace technology as enterprises look beyond AWS to Openstack-based cloud and Azure, says 451 Research
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October 30, 2012
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German manufacturer Sigel boosts efficiency with storage hypervisor
German manufacturer Sigel used storage hypervisor technology to improve the efficiency of its virtual servers and Oracle database systems
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October 30, 2012
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UK datacentres are not ready for big data impact shows study
UK datacentres are not prepared for the changes that big data will bring, a study of 125 senior IT decision makers revealed
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October 29, 2012
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Cheshire Constabulary polices network with SolarWinds
Police force in Cheshire uses SolarWinds’ infrastructure monitoring tools to keep its IT out of trouble
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October 26, 2012
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Data Centre Alliance hits out at government CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
The UK government’s CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme does not help datacentres become more efficient, says Data Centre Alliance
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October 25, 2012
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Archaic datacentre practices are causing inefficiency, says the Green Grid
Today's datacentre energy practices date back to 1950s resulting in energy waste and high carbon emissions, said the Green Grid
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October 24, 2012
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Datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016, predicts Cisco
Global datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016 to reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually, forecasts Cisco Systems’ Global Cloud Index
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October 23, 2012
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Rackspace offers 'infinite scalability' with Cloud Block Storage product
Rackspace has launched Cloud Block Storage product with infinite storage scalability to help OpenStack cloud users overcome storage-related challenges
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October 22, 2012
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Intel: Cloud must be more federated and automated
Cloud computing services must become more federated and automated to help enterprise IT use them to deliver more for less, says Intel
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October 18, 2012
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How Sega used hybrid cloud to beat the Christmas sales spike
A combination of private and public cloud helped Sega hasten its games-testing process as well as bring agility, security and scalability to its IT
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October 18, 2012
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Google offers Street View of datacentres
Google offers Street View of its datacentres and a virtual tour of how users' data is stored, with an emphasis on security practices
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October 17, 2012
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Today’s datacentres run at much lower temperatures than necessary
Datacentres are wasting electricity by running at sub-20ºC, as the optimum temperature is 25-26ºC
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October 16, 2012
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Facebook opens first engineering centre outside the US in London for mobile
Facebook has opened an engineering centre in London today, its first outside the US to develop its mobile products
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October 11, 2012
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'Big three' datacentre power suppliers hold nearly 50% of the market
Three datacentre cooling infrastructure providers - Schneider Electric, Emerson and Eaton - held 47% of the datacentre energy market in 2011
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October 10, 2012
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VMworld Europe: Horizon Suite to help IT manage corporate assets on Apple iOS
VMware is launching a suite of products to help IT executives manage workspace apps on consumers’ mobile devices including on Apple iPhones securely
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October 10, 2012
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VMworld Europe 2012 kicks off in Barcelona
VMworld Europe 2012 opens with updates from VMware on the cloud and new management suites
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October 10, 2012
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Complex and non-transparent Oracle licensing costing firms millions
Companies virtualising Oracle databases with VMware platforms face millions in penalties over non-compliance
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October 09, 2012
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Case study: How to virtualise SAP and migrate from IBM onto x86
At VMworld Europe Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores gave an overview of how it virtualised an SAP environment and migrated from an IBM mainframe to x86
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October 09, 2012
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VMware tools up for software-defined datacentres
At VMworld Europe in Barcelona, VMware addressed how it would tackle greater IT complexity through management and automation